András Csókay

Budapest University of Technology and Economics Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (2011) Semmelweis Ignác Award (2018) Honorary citizen of Budapest (2019) András Csókay (born 16 February 1956), is a Hungarian neurosurgeon with international recognition in the field of neurosurgery for his development of a technique to enhance microsurgical precision in the vascular tunnel and for the separation of a pair of Bangladeshi (Islam) Craniopagus Twins.

[1] András Csókay graduated from Apáczai Csere János Gymnasium of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 1974.

Csókay started his career as an engineer, and after three years he enrolled at Semmelweis University, where he graduated with a medical degree in 1989.

[2] Three years later Csókay moved back to Budapest and became head of the neurosurgery department of the Hungarian Army Medical Center from 1 August 2013.

[10] Csókay led the "Cselekvés a Kiszolgáltatottakért Alapítvány's" team[11] of more than 30 neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists;[8] he conducted the final separation surgery of the craniopagus twins[12][11] at the military hospital in Dhaka.